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1 PLOWS Data Management Scot Loehrer Steve Williams Linda Cully NCAR/EOL PLOWS Planning Meeting 18 September 2009 Champaign, IL

2 PLOWS Data Management Web Site at NCAR/EOL Project Description Data Access Field Catalog Publications Documentation Meetings Mailing Lists PLOWS Web Pages Photography

3 PLOWS Field Catalog Daily Reports Operational Products Model Products Research Products Mission Summary Table

4 PLOWS Field Catalog Reports/Summaries (Status, Mission, and Operations) 257 documents and image files (0.20 GB) Research Platform Products (Aircraft, Surface, Lidar, Upper Air) 193 image files (9.70 MB) Operational Products (Satellite, Surface, Radar, Upper Air) 305,928 image files (20.38 GB) Model Output Imagery (Analysis and Forecast Fields) 116,579 image files (9.46 GB) TOTALS: 422,957 Files (30.04 GB)

5 PLOWS Field Catalog Some of the significant changes/additions for the PLOWS Field Catalog: Extend radar/satellite sectors to the northwest. WSR-88D Level III Echo Tops product. TDWR products Canadian and SREF ensemble products. ECMWF products. Model simulated reflectivity products. RUC hourly analyses. UIUC WRF products Aircraft products

6 PLOWS Data Archive (Master List)

7 PLOWS Data Archive (Operational Data Sets) Upper Air NWS high resolution (1 or 6 sec) radiosonde Multi-Agency Profiler GTS Radiosonde (man/sig) Surface ASOS 1-minute Iowa AWOS 1-minute MADIS Mesonet GTS METAR and SYNOP Precipitation/Snow NCEP/EMC Stage IV Precipitation Data NWS Cooperative Observer Daily Data NOHRSC Snow Data Assimilation System Data (link) Satellite GOES-12 1km visible PLOWS sector (netcdf) GOES-12 4km all channels PLOWS sector (netcdf) Radar WSR-88D Level II (link) WSR-88D Level III (link) Model NOMADS (link)

8 PLOWS Data Archive (ASOS/IA AWOS) ASOS Station Locations IA AWOS Station Locations

9 PLOWS Data Archive (MADIS) IADOT (10 min) INDOT (10 min) KSDOT (15 min) KYDOT (5 min) MNDOT (10 min) NDDOT (hourly) NEDOT (20 min) WIDOT (hourly) UPR IEM (20 min) MOCAWN (5 min) MQT Meso (30 min) Non-Federal AWOS (5 min) GPSMET/DDMET (15 min) HADS (hourly) NOS (6 min) RAWS (15 min) APRSWXNET (15 min) AWX (15 min) GLOBE (daily) WXforYou (15 min)

10 PLOWS Data Archive (Precipitation/Snow) NCEP/EMC Stage IV Precipitation Gage Hourly and Daily Precipitation 4km gridded gage only hourly precipitation (grib) 4km gridded multi-sensor (gage and bias-corrected radar) hourly precipitation (grib) NWS Cooperative Observer Daily Data Daily Max/Min temperature, precipitation and snowfall. NOAA/NOHRSC Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Integrates snow data from satellite, airborne platforms and ground stations. 1km gridded data of snow covered area, snow depth and snow water equivalent.

11 PLOWS Data Archive (GOES Satellite) km GOES-12 Visible Sector km GOES-12 All Channel Sector

12 PLOWS Data Archive (Model Output) NOAA National Operational Model Archive & Distribution System Archives include: NAM - 12 km resolution; 4/day; 0-60hr forecast; CONUS GFS 1 degree resolution; 4/day; 0-180hr forecast; Global GFS 0.5 degree resolution; 4/day; 0-180hr forecast; Global RUC 20km resolution; hourly; 0-3, 6, 9, 12 hr forecast; CONUS RUC 13km resolution; hourly; 0-3, 6, 9, 12 hr forecast; CONUS

13 PLOWS Data Archive (Composite Data Sets) A composite dataset is a collection (over some time period and region) of similar data (e.g. surface meteorological, soundings, precipitation) from a variety of operational and research sources, put into a common format, and passed through a uniform quality control. Why does NCAR/EOL develop composites? - Provides data in a uniform format with QC. - Allows determination of network/site problems. - Useful for model applications. - Prevents duplication of effort.

14 PLOWS Data Archive (Composite Data Sets) Upper Air (Sounding): Native (highest) Resolution (979 soundings) NWS -- 1 second resolution (7 stations; 829 soundings; GPS winds) NWS -- 6 second resolution (1 station; 109 soundings; Radiotheodolite winds) NCAR/EOL MISS -- 1 second resolution (2 locations; 14 soundings; GPS winds) University of Missouri second resolution (3 locations;27 soundings; GPS winds) 5-mb Resolution

15 PLOWS Data Archive (Surface/Precipitation Composites?) Other composite data sets that NCAR/EOL has developed in the past: Surface Meteorological composite (1 min, 5 min, 20 min, hourly) Precipitation composite (15 min, hourly, daily) Any interest in PLOWS composite data sets?

16 Hourly Surface Met Composite

17 DRI ASU ISFF T-REX Hourly Surface Composite Development AWOS ASOS Gross Limit Checks U Leeds ISS TREX MERGE Horizontal QC HOBO METAR MADIS Examine Statistics GBUAPCD China Lake China Lake ASOS U. Houston PestCast T-REX Hourly Surface Composite MISS

18 PLOWS Data Archive (Surface Composite?) Components of a possible PLOWS Surface Meteorological Composite Data Set MADIS Mesonets METAR (ASOS/AWOS/etc) MISS Surface Met MIPS Surface Met Illinois Climate Network Illinois Department of Transportation High Plains Climate Network Soil Climate Analysis Network State Air Quality Networks WI AWON GLERL Network PAAWS (Indiana) St. Louis University Mesonet

19 Summary and Data Issues Finalize PLOWS Archive High Resolution and 5mb Sounding Composite data sets completed Sept Finalize products and other requirements for PLOWS Field Catalog Real-time products from the aircraft/ground systems in field catalog? Finalize additional data archive requirements for PLOWS Surface meteorological or precipitation composites for PLOWS ?

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